The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-04
CoIman Versus OgelsbH.

WASHINGTON, D. c., January Com
missioner Colman has written letter
to Gov. Ogelsby, of Illinois, sharply
protesting against what he terms the
violation by the Illinois State Live
Stock Commission of the rules prepared
| by the Commissioner of Agriculture to
regulate cooperation between the
general government and States for the
suppression of pleuro-pneumonia. He
cites rule 10, providing that "all animals
afflicted with contagious pleuro-pnau-
monla are to be slaughtered as soon
after their discovery as the necessary
arrangements can be made" and saws:
sit is notorious that such affected
animals we're not promptly slaughtere
either IN the diStillery sheds upon the
Harvey farm, or in other herds" He
declares that despite, the express stipu-
1aIion that incubation shall not be
pTacticed in Illinois, incubation has
been permitted. He calls attention to
the provisions that guarantees shall
not be removed without due notice to
the Department of Agriculture and that
all necessary disinfectants shall be con-
Quoted by the department, and declares
there have been violations of these rules
OF so important character that they
threaten to impair if not destroy the
value of what is being done in Chicago
and may lead to results so far-reaching
and disastrous to the whole country
that ne cannot allow them to pass with.
out entering a most emphatic protest.
He continues: ut requires no great
great amount of search to discover the
rea OF and necessity for these rules in
flor, with no 70 70
This department has expended large
sums of money and it will be ridiculous
to do this without some means of
assuring itself that intelligent and
thorough measures would be adopted
and enforced as would secure with
reasonable certainty the object for which
the appropriation was made" The
commissioner gives as an instance of
the nOn-co-operation of Gov. OgelSby
The circumstance of reflline the
Shufeldt distillery stables with healthy
cattle without allowing the department
TIE necessary time to pass Judgment on
the matter and take the necessary pre-
cautions. The commissioner adds:
Such course makes our efforts to CO.
operate with your State farce: worse
even than that-it removes the only
guarantee that there could be somesub
stantial result for the thousands of dol
lars expended IN Cook County out of the
national appropriation for the suppre =
sion of pleuro-pneumonia and now
after three months of anxious waiting
for tidings that the contagion had been
thoroughly eiadicated from at least a
few OF the infected places in Chicago.
the country is amazed to learn that the
commissioners have allowed the owners
Of the worst infected place now remain
ing in the city to disinfect their own
premises without satisfactory or COM
plete supervision and practically with
no supervision at all, and not satisfied
with this they have shown most extra
ordinary haste and most obstinate
determination to have this place flied
Immediately with fresh cattle. They
allowed but a single day to elapse
between the slaughter of the last
affected animals and the issuance of an
order to refill the stables. 1t is a
remarkable fact that every movement !
OF the commissioner for the sup
preston OF the plague and the p o
lection OF the people at large was !
attended with the utmost conservatism
and deliberation. There was no undue
haste to slaughter the diseased or ex-
posed animals In these same sheds. Ten
long weeks, every day of which cost the
citizens OF this country thousands of
dollars, when allowed to drag along be-
fore the courage of those gentlemen, !
could be brought TO the point OF carry
ing ont this plain provision of the law. !
But now, how different, when the in
teresis OF wealthy distilling company
were t. b protected. company which /,